Comactinia meridionalis meridionalis (L. Agassiz, 1865 )

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Comactinia meridionalis meridionalis (L. Agassiz, 1865)

Alecto meridionalis L. Agassiz in E.C. Agassiz & A. Agassiz, 1865: 121, 122, 153, 154.

Antedon meridionalis: Pourtalès 1869: 355 (part); 1878: 214 (part?).— Carpenter 1879: 20 (part); 1881: 156 (part).— Krau 1950: 358.

Comatula meridionalis: Carpenter 1879: 20 , 27, 28 (part).

Actinometra meridionalis: Carpenter 1881: 155 , 156, 157, 161, 162, 164 (part); 1888: 301–302, plate IV, fig. 4a–c, plate LVI, figs. 1–2 (part).— Ludwig 1882: 6.

Actinometra echinoptera: Hartlaub 1912: 280 , 281, 413, 415–471, plates XVI, XVII, XVIII (part).

Comactinia echinoptera : A.H. Clark 1909e: 149, 150 (part?); 1915a: 29, 31, 32, 46, 129, 249, 281, 291, 298, 325, 355 (part); 1921a: 14, 15, 16, 71, 219, 255, 323, 341, 662, 664, 665, 666, 672, 681 (part?); 1931: 128, 133, 231, 277, 280, 301, 351, 359, 375–400, 692, plate XLII, figs. 125–128; plate XLIII, figs. 129–130, plate XLIV, figs. 131–135 (part).— Tommasi 1963: 98–100 (part?); 1965: 6, 7, 8, 14, figs. 12–18 (part?).

Comactinia meridionalis : A.H. Clark 1909e: 150 (part?); 1913a: 11; 1913c: 389; 1915a: 34, 46, 315, 317, 321, 326; plate IV, fig. 548 (part); 1921a: 16, 220, 222, 225, 233, 280, 291, 312, 341, 370, 374, 509–510, 513, 514–517, 518, 520, 549, 555, 577– 586, 588–590, 596, 662, 663, 665, 666, 668, 672, 681, 706, 725, plate I, figs. 963–964 (part); 1921b: 9–11, 25–28 (part); 1931: 50, 136, 277, 283, 378 (part).— Messing 1978: 59–61, figs. 5a–c, 6a–j; 2003b: 154; 2018: 2018: 253.— Messing & Dearborn 1990: 1, 5, 15(key), 23, 24, 28, fig. 11a–i.— Bryan et al. 1997: 177, 180, 181, 182 (tables). Vázquez-Bader et al. 2008: 300, 302 (tables).— Alvarado et al. 2008: 39 (list).— Alvarado 2011: 264 (table).— Summers et al. 2014: 323, 325 (table), 328, 332, 335, fig. 4d.— Ausich et al. 2020: 531, fig. 4.

Actinometra echinoptera var. meridionalis Hartlaub, 1912: 416 (table), 417 (table), 418 (table), 426–430, plate XVI, figs. 1–5, 10–12 (part).

Comactinia echinoptera var. meridionalis Tommasi, 1963: 99 (part?).— Meyer 1973b: 118–120.

Comactinia meridionalis meridionalis: Messing 1978: 61–71 , figs. 7, 8, 9a–f, 10a–n.— Fernandes et al. 2002: 408 (list).— González et al. 2002: 90–91, fig. 2.—Herrera-Moreno & Betancourt-Férnandez 2004: 7 (table).— Pawson et al. 2009: 1186.— Benavides-Serrato et al. 2012: 31, 50–51 (two figures).—Herrera-Moreno 2014: 3, 7 (table).—Alvarado et al. 2017: S275.— Feng et al. 2017: 577.

Type locality. South Carolina, USA .

Type material. MZC 33 (Lectotype), MZC 32 (Paralectotype).

Geographic and bathymetric range. Western Atlantic (North Carolina to the Florida Keys USA, Bahamas, Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean coast from Mexico to Venezuela, Antillean Arc from Cuba to Barbados, Suriname, and Brazil), at depths from 3 to 508 m ( Messing 1978; Alvarado 2011). As for the previous species, Solís-Marin et al. (2013) cited a broader bathymetric range, from 3 to 1,033 m.

Brazilian localities. Bahia, Rio de Janeiro, and São Paulo (A.H. Clark 1913a; Messing 1978; Meyer et al. 1978).